All Geniuses

"Up ahead had originally been a place no one paid attention to."

"Later, when the shamans invaded, they swept through the medicine fields for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Their Gu Worms were extraordinarily sensitive, able to scent secrets buried ten thousand fathoms underground, hidden deep within layer upon layer of rocky caves."

"The fortunes many Strong Martial cultivators had built up were all dug out, eaten by insects and trampled by beasts until they were ruined beyond recognition."

"That was also how they uncovered a local medicine field, a secret medicine field passed down from the days of Black Cloud Mountain."

"After Black Cloud Mountain was destroyed, it changed hands several times before ending up with Dongmen Feitu, a Strong Martial cultivator of this prefecture. He was also the sort who made a fortune in silence."

"After acquiring that medicine field, he kept it secret. Over the following decades, his most capable fellow disciples and disciples successively 'went missing' or 'died of illness,' only to be secretly sent to the medicine field to guard the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and refine medicine in secret for him."

"Unfortunately, all that painstaking effort turned to ashes beneath the shaman invasion."

"Only afterward did those of us from Great Wu Prefecture learn that he had obtained a medicine field handed down from Black Cloud Mountain."

After listening to this long-winded speech, Zhou You could not help asking, "So?"

"This story tells us that eating alone is no good!"

This was near the border between Great Wu Prefecture and Northern Xuan Prefecture. A few more steps forward, and he would reach Northern Xuan Prefecture.

Yet those few short steps, normally easy to cross, now seemed unimaginably far away.

The several Strong Martial cultivators blocking Zhou You's path were all locals of Great